The positivists have a simple solution: the world must be divided into that which we can say clearly and the rest, which we had better pass over in silence. But can anyone conceive of a more pointless philosophy, seeing that what we can say clearly amounts to next to nothing? If we omitted all that is unclear, we would probably be left completely uninteresting and trivial tautologies.

Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.

When I meet God, I am going to ask him two questions: Why relativity ? And why turbulence ? I really believe he will have an answer for the first.

The ontology of materialism rested upon the illusion that the kind of existence, the direct "actuality" of the world around us, can be extrapolated into the atomic range. This extrapolation is impossible, however.

An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject and how to avoid them.

Thus, the more precisely the position is determined, the less precisely the momentum is known, and conversely.

The basic idea is to shove all fundamental difficulties onto the neutron and to do quantum mechanics in the nucleus.